Slightly Off Kilter

• Mac OS X TimeMachine got badly confused. It has no log to speak of; "failed" is not a helpful error message. Deleted some backups. OK now. 12:16 PM June 05, 2008

• Interesting pricing of bell peppers (per pound) at grocery. Green $1.59; Red $2.49; Orange or Yellow $5.99. Why such a dramatic difference? 09:13 PM June 05, 2008

• Transferring the contents of 500mg Vit C gel caps to half doses. Cat helping with the empties. Snuffle. Patpat. Munch. He ate most of them. 08:53 PM June 06, 2008

• Lovely day. Clear, blue sky. Wind speed 5mph. Bees floating about without being blown off course. Opening windows. Enjoying this Saturday. 11:07 AM June 07, 2008

• Found at the store, Canada Dry Sparkling Green Tea Ginger Ale. (Well, of course it's sparkling). Liking both ingredients, I tried it. Tasty. 05:58 PM June 08, 2008

• Speaking of ginger ale, a co-worker says he has twice been served a Coke + 7-up mixture passed off as "ginger ale" by a bartender. So wrong. 05:59 PM June 08, 2008

These are my Treasures for the past fortnight.

• pastry hedgehogs at Dim Sum

• a trumpet tree — red trumpet vine growing 30-feet up through two hemlock trees

• someone's ringtone: the 1812 overture!

• 8-bit tarot

The hot weather broke last Saturday but it's been hazy and smoggy since then. There have been fires burning to the north and down the coast. Nasty.

California has been issued an emergency declaration and federal agencies have been ordered to assist in the firefighting efforts. Fire officials announced full containment of the Napa-Sonoma wild fire on Wednesday.

Most of the fiires were apparently caused by lightning.

We stopped at OSH before dinner last Saturday and bought a roll of turf. The kitties' lawn needed to be rejuvenated. The kitties were loving it to death.

Another hot week, starting Wednesday. This is going to be a warm summer. By Friday it was 87 in our living room. I turned on alll the ceiling fans, opened all the windows, and drew the blinds on windows that don't open. The cats melted into various furry puddles.

We had Dim Sum on Sunday with friends from the East Bay. They agree with us that the Hong Kong Flower Lounge in Millbrae has excellent Dim Sum.

Good food. Too much food. Full to bursting but happy.

Something new this time - pastry hedgehogs! Three of them, artfully "carved" with prickles and two black sesame seeds for eyes. Nestled on a plate of deep-fried rice noodle "grass".

Fun with TWiki: I worked out some interesting tricks with INCLUDEs for table rows this week - how to create a table from which individual rows can be pulled to stick into other tables.

If answers to your test questions can be looked up by "cheaters" on their phones, maybe they don't need to learn them? BETTER QUESTIONS PLZ?

Read my commentary...

Recently, Crystal Clayton asked this question in her blog: "What Did You Want To Do When You Grew Up?". This is my response. What's yours?

The weather was warm for several days. The fog and wind are back now.

As of June 12, I have been at this Job for 2 years. That's the longest at any Company since 1997 and the longest in a particular job since I'm not sure when.

I've been wandering through Twitter, exploring. I found several new people to follow, including @Raqhun, @BluegrassPoet, and @Judith12. Lyrical people.